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Permitting Wars

The permitting reform bill now being considered in the Senate has provoked fairly vicious fights between “abundance” advocates and at least some environmental groups.  I think that...

Unpacking the Senate Permitting Reform Bill: Permit Certainty

This post continues my review of the provisions of the Senate Permitting Reform Bill, focusing on the permit certainty provisions in Title IV.  My introduction to the coverage of t...

Residential New Construction Permit Plans

I need detailed permit plans for a residential new construction project. I already have a complete design/architectural blueprint. Requirements: - Create permit plans based on my...

Building permits

Building permits issued by the City of Jonesboro from Aug. 28 through Thursday, with the owner or contractor, construction type and estimated cost:

Building permits

Building permits issued by the City of Jonesboro from Sept. 18 through Thursday, with the owner or contractor, construction type and estimated cost:

Building permits

Building permits issued by the City of Jonesboro from Aug. 21 through Thursday, with the owner or contractor, construction type and estimated cost:

Building permits

Building permits issued by the City of Jonesboro from Sept. 25 through Thursday, with the owner or contractor, construction type and estimated cost:

Building permits

Building permits issued by the City of Jonesboro from Oct. 2 through Thursday, with the owner or contractor, construction type and estimated cost:

Touting prospects for federal permitting reform

Editors at National Review Online promote one good way to make the federal government better. For decades, the federal government’s byzantine and overlapping permitting regimes for...

New permit path speeds up LÄhainÄ rebuilding efforts

Maui County implemented a new directive on October 7 to streamline the rebuilding process for qualifying properties in Lahaina by allowing certain major use permits to undergo admi...

Massachusetts Conditions Large Data Center Permits on Community Agreements

Pittsburg launches 'EZ permits,' aims for one-day turnaround for low-risk permits

Pittsburg launches 'EZ permits,' aims for one-day turnaround for low-risk permits Zachary Whalen Tue, 09/29/2026 - 07:00 Primary Image...

Senate Permitting Bill Would Reshape Environmental Permitting And Reviews

Key Takeaways What Happened: On September 30, bipartisan Senate committee leaders introduced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026. The bill would dramaticall...

Permitting Update: BEAD Projects Clear Federal Review Faster, Then Hit Poles and Roads

Louisiana has cut federal reviews to days, Kansas is reshuffling one-third of its awarded locations, and Virginia says utility poles and rights-of-way are now the biggest delays.

NYC Renovation Permits: What Needs One, What It Costs and How Long It Takes

Most New York renovation budgets treat the permit as a formality. In practice it is the item that sets the schedule, decides which contractors are eligible to do the work and deter...

PNNL’s PermitAI Team Releases 2 Public Resources for Environmental Review Data

PNNL's PermitAI team released NEPATEC3.0, which now includes map images, and an open-source toolkit for live federal permitting data. The post PNNL’s PermitAI Team Releases 2 Publi...

Improving permitting reform

I’ve written a bunch about the Senate’s permitting reform bill.  My basic takeaway is that I want this bill to pass, but that there are some serious flaws in the bill, particularly...

Is AI really the Panacea to our permitting woes?

Is AI really the Panacea to our permitting woes? Tom Sanchez Thu, 09/24/2026 - 05:00 Primary Image Caption Honolulu is widely cite...

Senate Permitting Reform Would Reshape NEPA Review and Could Spur Changes to NRC Procedures

Senate Negotiators Reach Agreement on Permitting Reform Text

Go-To Guide: Proposed legislation would make significant reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and federal environmental and energy project permitting, repres...

Hard Questions About the Permitting Bill

Before celebrating the benefits of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, we need an honest accounting of its tradeoffs, especially how much additional fossil...

Moving Environment Assessment Outside the Permit Process

I’m very sympathetic to arguments that we’re unable to build important infrastructure, whether housing or transmission, because we have too much red tape.  There’s a real temptatio...

NAHB Provides Agency Official Inside Look to Inform Changes to Stormwater Permitting

NAHB members and staff provided a tour of several residential subdivisions in Northern Virginia to an official from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Advocac...

Industry, Local Governments Still Disagree Strongly on Permitting

FCC received comments on its proposal to set shot clocks and fee limits for wireline projects